Kama Sutra
Kama Sutra
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<strong>Kama</strong> <strong>Sutra</strong><br />
● TRANSLATOR'S<br />
NOTES<br />
- Preface<br />
- Introduction<br />
● PART I:<br />
INTRODUCTORY<br />
- Chapter I<br />
- Chapter II<br />
- Chapter III<br />
- Chapter IV<br />
- Chapter V<br />
● PART II: ON SEXUAL<br />
UNION<br />
- Chapter I<br />
- Chapter II<br />
- Chapter III<br />
- Chapter IV<br />
- Chapter V<br />
- Chapter VI<br />
- Chapter VII<br />
- Chapter VIII<br />
- Chapter IX<br />
- Chapter X<br />
● PART III: ABOUT THE<br />
ACQUISITION OF A<br />
WIFE<br />
- Chapter I<br />
- Chapter II<br />
- Chapter III<br />
- Chapter IV<br />
- Chapter V<br />
● PART IV: ABOUT A<br />
WIFE<br />
- Chapter I<br />
- Chapter II<br />
● PART V: ABOUT THE<br />
WIVES OF OTHER<br />
PEOPLE<br />
- Chapter I<br />
- Chapter II<br />
- Chapter III<br />
- Chapter IV<br />
- Chapter V<br />
- Chapter VI<br />
● PART VI: ABOUT<br />
COURTESANS<br />
- Introductory Remarks -<br />
Chapter I<br />
- Chapter II<br />
- Chapter III<br />
- Chapter IV<br />
- Chapter V<br />
- Chapter VI<br />
● PART VII: ON THE<br />
MEANS OF ATTRACTING<br />
OTHERS TO ONE'S SELF<br />
- Chapter I<br />
- Chapter II<br />
● CONCLUDING<br />
REMARKS<br />
● MODERN KAMA<br />
SUTRA<br />
Of different kinds of Gain<br />
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PART VI<br />
CHAPTER V<br />
When a courtesan is able to realize much money every day, by reason of many<br />
customers, she should not confine herself to a single lover; under such<br />
circumstances, she should fix her rate for one night, after considering the place,<br />
the season, and the condition of the people, and having regard to her own good<br />
qualities and good looks, and after comparing her rates with those of other<br />
courtesans. She can inform her lovers, and friends, and acquaintances about<br />
these charges. If, however, she can obtain a great gain from a single lover, she<br />
may resort to him alone, and live with him like a wife.<br />
Now the sages are of opinion that, when a courtesan has the chance of an equal<br />
gain from two lovers at the same time, a preference should be given to the one<br />
who would give her the kind of thing which she wants. But Vatsyayana says<br />
that the preference should be given to the one who gives her gold, because it<br />
cannot be taken back like some other things, it can be easily received, and is<br />
also the means of procuring anything that may be wished for. Of such things as<br />
gold, silver, copper, bell metal, iron, pots, furniture, beds, upper garments,<br />
under vestments, fragrant substances, vessels made of gourds, ghee, oil, corn,<br />
cattle, and other things of a like nature, the first - gold - is superior to all the<br />
others.<br />
When the same labour is required to gain any two lovers, or when the same<br />
kind of thing is to be got from each of them, the choice should be made by the<br />
advice of a friend, or it may be made from their personal qualities, or from the<br />
signs of good or bad fortune that may be connected with them.<br />
When there are two lovers, one of whom is attached to the courtesan, and the<br />
other is simply very generous, the sages say that the preference should be<br />
given to the generous lover, but Vatsyayana is of opinion that the one who is<br />
really attached to the courtesan should be preferred, because he can be made<br />
to be generous, even as a miser gives money if he becomes fond of a woman,<br />
but a mail who is simply generous cannot be made to love with real<br />
attachment. But among those who are attached to her, if there is one who is<br />
poor, and one who is rich, the preference is of course to be given to the latter.<br />
When there are two lovers, one of whom is generous, and the other ready to do<br />
any service for the courtesan, some sages say that the one who is ready to do<br />
the service should be preferred, but Vatsyayana is of opinion that a man who<br />
does a service thinks that he has gained his object when he has done<br />
something once, but a generous man does not care for what he has given<br />
before. Even here the choice should be guided by the likelihood of the future<br />
good to be derived from her union with either of them.<br />
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